Stalin dares CM to release White Paper on foreign investment

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Opposition leader M K Stalin has dared Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami to release a white paper on the investment brought to the state through the 443 MoUs signed in the AIADMK regime, including the 41 inked during his just-concluded foreign tour.

Opposition leader M K Stalin

Chennai:

Reiterating that the DMK was ready to felicitate the Chief Minister in a week after he releases the white paper, Stalin said, “Is the CM ready to accept my challenge? People of Tamil Nadu should be answered in two days. Failing which, it would be confirmed that the CM’s tour was shrouded in mysteries.” Stalin, who is also the president of the DMK, sought to know if the Chief Minister has the courage to release a white paper on what amount of investment has been realised through the 443 MoUs signed in the AIADMK regime, how many industries set up using the investment are operation and how many jobs have been created through them?

Remarking that the Chief Minister has returned empty-handed after his 13-day foreign tour, Stalin claimed that foreign investment to the tune of Rs 46, 091 crore was realised, and 2.21 lakh jobs were created during the 2006-11 DMK regime.

Doubting as to what would become of the 41 MoUs signed during the foreign tour, Stalin said, “Failure of the foreign tour and frustration of the CM, who could not release a white paper on the investment realised through the two editions of Global Investors Meet, was evident from his blaming me. It has also confirmed that he did not go overseas to fetch investment.” Opining that the Chief Minister and ministers who have spent the state fund as their personal money would be answerable to the people one day, Stalin said the Chief Minister has no moral right to claim that he had gone for wooing investors after permitting ministers to tour overseas to save his government.